Thomas Ogren stood on the dock at The Dalles Marina boat launch Monday, casting for Northern pikeminnow in the hopes of hooking a piece of the roughly $1 million anglers are paid ea ...

The agencies will consider changes to dams in the Columbia River System ... effects of changes to the system, including taking out the four lower Snake River dams. Impacts to flood risk management ...

Two federal agencies have announced plans to update a study on the Columbia and Snake River dams -- a move lauded by advocates who say the new study could help local tribes and save the Columbia Basin ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Administration and Bureau of Reclamation today released the first step of a court-ordered National Environmental Policy Act review of the federal ...

At 12 this morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened Bonneville Dam’s spillway gates, marking the beginning of seasonal water releases known as “spill.” ...

Crew members from The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bluebell, commissioned in 1944, help improve safety along rivers in Portland ...

The Snake River Headwaters Watershed Group is already bearing fruit. For a year and a half, the wide-ranging assortment of ...

The lower Snake River Dams are “run of the river ... unreliable compared to some other dams in the federal Columbia River system – especially in recent years with decreasing snowpack.

Spill, which is now happening at each federal dam along the Columbia-Snake river system that has fish passage, allows out-migrating salmon to dodge the dams’ deadly turbines, increasing their ...

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the Columbia and Snake River system is the nation’s single-largest wheat export gateway, transporting over 60% of all U.S. wheat to markets overseas.